Re:IBM’s Watson Now A Second-Year Med Student
by CobraKai on Thursday May 26, 2011 @10:52PM
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http://www.intuitivesurgical.com/products/
Amazing, 3D vision robots. Very graceful translation of hand movements into the robots arms. Very nice product. Currently only for laparoscopic intra-abdominal surgery. Not yet automated. They have DaVinci assisted cardiac surgery programs developing in some parts of the country.
Robot assisted airway manipulation http://www.anesthesia-analgesia.org/content/111/4/929.abstra...
This robot could intubate you. DaVinci could operate on you.
Re:IBM’s Watson Now A Second-Year Med Student
by nostromo on Thursday May 26, 2011 @08:52PM
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Watson may not be able to perform surgery, but with "telesurgery" becoming a reality, maybe we can offshore it and still save 80%.
tl;dr Watson can, and will, exceed doctor's capability for a certain, somewhat narrow, range of their function. Doctors will still be necessary for the other things that they do.